With the support of her son, Guy Johnson, the life and writings of poet Maya Angelou are being developed into a Broadway stage performance.

Maya Angelou was (and still is) a force of nature. As a poet, author, and recipient of both the National Medal of Arts and Presidential Medal of Freedom, Angelou’s career spanned over six decades. Her dynamic existence will now be given new life on the grand stage.

 

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The one-woman play, titled Phenomenal Woman: An Evening with Maya Angelou, is said to include not only aspects of her well-known written works, but also “private musings” and never-before-heard stories that promise to be “a revelation to audiences.”

Source: Phenomenal Woman: Maya Angelou’s Legacy Is Coming to Broadway